what happened to the boy?

I've been thinking about this question. Why was the boy turned into a girl for the modern movie?

I think, actually, it's down to sexism. Not overt sexism on the part of the movie makers, who probably actually thought they were being anti-sexist by making a movie with a strong female lead, but real sexism -- that ( Read more... )

I didn't want to see "Flicka" because I'm not a horse girl and I'm not crazy about horse movies. But we had seen everything else in Watsonville that either of us would be willing to see, so we went.

( can you spoil a remake of an old movie of an older book? )